PLACE NAMES in songs

[El Presidente]

Eden: Eden by Talk Talk

 

[El Presidente]

Hammersmith: White Man in Hammersmith Palais by The Clash
London's Burning by The Clash
London Girl by The Jam

 

[Buzzer]

St Etienne 'Girl VII'

Primrose Hill, Staten Island,Chalk Farm, Massif Central, Gospel Oak, Sao Paolo,Boston Manor, Costa Rica, Arnos Grove,San Clemente, Tufnell Park, Gracetown, York Way,
Videoton, Clerkenwell, Portobello, Maida Vale,Old Ford, Valencia, Kennington, Galveston,Holland Park, Studamer, Dollis Hill, Fougeres, London Fields, Bratislava, Haggerston
Lavinia, Canonbury, Alice Springs, Tooting Graveney, Baffin Island, Pollard's Hill, Winnepeg, Plumstead Common, Hyderabad, Silvertown, Buffalo

 

[El Presidente]

Wichita Lineman by Glenn Campbell

Wichita: Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes

 

[Monkey Man]

A Riot on Eastbourne Pier - Captain Sensible.

Brighton, Hastings and Eastbourne are all namechecked in So What? by the Anti Nowhere League, covered by Metallica.

 

[El Presidente]

London, Birmingham, Carlisle, Dundee, Humberside, Leeds, Dublin: Panic by The Smiths

 

[El Presidente]

A Riot on Eastbourne Pier - Captain Sensible.

Brighton, Hastings and Eastbourne are all namechecked in So What? by the Anti Nowhere League, covered by Metallica.

Croydon by Captain Sensible

 

[Stato]

Mr Dury is good at this:

Milan, Sudan, Japan, Yucatan, Borneo, Bordeaux, Tiger Bay, Mandalay, Bombay, Santa Fe, oe'r the hills and far away,

Bilericay, Essex, Thanet, Burnham on Crouch, Shoeburyness,

and whilst we're on Shoeburyness, Billy Bragg offers advice should you ever have to go there:

 

[Buzzer]

Fatboy Slim - You're Not From Brighton
DJ Format - Last Bongo in Brighton
Stray Cats - Rumble In Brighton
Cel Frances Alexander - All things Brighton Beautiful
Martha Tilston - Brighton Song
Queen Brighton Rock

 

[Guinness Boy]

 

[PFJ]

Hastings , Brighton , Eastbourne
So what -Anti Nowhere League

 

[El Presidente]

Hastings , Brighton , Eastbourne
So what -Anti Nowhere League

My place in Rock and Roll folklore was SEALED when I stood next to Animal in the urinals at the Top Rank when they played there in ?

 

[Kosh]

Montreux On the Lake Geneva shoreline: SOTW, the mighty Purps.
Woman from Tokyo, the mighty Purps.
L.A. Connection, The mighty Blackmore's Rainbow.
Gates of Babylon, see above.
Lost in Hollywood, ahem, see above.
Katmandu, Cat Stevens.

Kosh

 

[rool]

London, Hamburg, Paris, Rome, Rio, Hong Kong, Tokyo, LA, New York, Amsterdam, Monte Carlo, Shard End

ELO - All Over The World

 

[PFJ]

My place in Rock and Roll folklore was SEALED when I stood next to Animal in the urinals at the Top Rank when they played there in ?

Ha ha ... I actually took a selfie with him after their set at Sonisphere this year . Not very punk rock , I know.

 

[El Presidente]

Ha ha ... I actually took a selfie with him after their set at Sonisphere this year . Not very punk rock , I know.

I was devastated when he washed his hands after having a wee. Not very rock and roll!

 

[rool]

Cullercoats, Whitley Bay, Spanish City
Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love

 

[Hiney]

Hersham Boys - Sham69

 

[El Presidente]

Worthing - Suede in the song 'The Next Life'

Probably my favourite Suede song.

 

[El Presidente]

Gallipoli; And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues